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fuelwood

noun

fuelwood is a noun meaning “wood grown or felled for use as commercial fuel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-E-L-W-O-O-D, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fuelwood is fuelwoods.

What does fuelwood mean?

noun

  1. 1

    wood grown or felled for use as commercial fuel

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fuelwood

  • fuelwoods plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fuelwood?

Fuelwood appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fuelwood come from?

From fuel + wood.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).